Reply #38: Here(NM) we have put the issue on a "legal" basis.

[revcarol]

You are not allowed to participate in any Democratic functions, including promoting candidates at Democratic meetings, unless you are a registered Democrat, and EVERY MEETING the county register is brought and this is the official document about which partyyou are registered in.

You cannot vote in the Democratic caucus unless you are a registered Democrat 29 days before the caucus. That's the law here in New Mexico.

Kucinich is getting a tremendous amount of support from Greens here.I registered a man to vote today who had not voted since the '60's. He is pulling in a tremendous number of disenchanted voters, labor, the unemployed, college students, people concerned about the deficit, people concerned with their loss of liberties, those fighting NAFTA, the WTO, and the IMF and their ideologies....

We are welcoming Greens even into our steering committee meetings, in which we plan actions, outreach, events.If they are committed to DK, we welcome them back into the fold. Whether the Democratic Party can keep them or not is up to the party.

I personally ask one thing of Greens, whether they decide to stay in their party or switch to the Democratic party: "If you like his ideas and policies, contribute even a few $$ to his campaign.This gets his ideas out there to be shown as popular and adopted into the Democratic platform, which the next President will be bound to support."

BTW, the person who just volunteered to be the faculty sponsor for the "Kucinich for President" group at the local university is a GREEN.

Edit: The county here is 14% Green.How many other counties have that high a percentage of Greens?

And the Green canididate for GOVERNOR in 2000 is working on DK's campaign in Santa Fe, at the headquarters, and e-mailed Greens all over the state that he recommends DK, and will come down here soon to speak to both Greens and DK supporters.

We are so Green here that when the Governor comes here, he starts every speech with, "I know a lot of you didn't vote for me, but..."